So this all started as a fantasy/joke of mine in IRC, but I want to say
that so many people have responded favorably that I'm supportive of the
concept.
One great reason to do all of this is to shake up the cobwebs in our
thinking. A lot of our processes are fantastic, organically evolved
over time, and shouldn't be changed. But they aren't all perfect and we
need to always remain experimental -- it's a wiki after all.
David Gerard wrote:
OK. I suggest that some time soon (early January, say)
we hold an
Article Improvement Week.
* No new articles to be created.
* AFD is closed for business - no deletions, no nominations.
(Copyright violations, gross libel etc. can be zapped as usual.)
* You can still work on new stuff in your userspace, but please don't
move it to article space. (How or if to enforce this to be determined.)
A week should be long enough to get some effect and short enough not to
frustrate people and make them go elsewhere because they want to write
stuff (hence the userspace getout).
Effects I expect at the end of the week:
* Some article polishing.
* More people practiced in article polishing.
* A flood of new articles out of userspace. Hopefully better ones.
People will also treat this as "work on those new articles you were
thinking about" week. That's fine too.
* A consequent flood of AFDs, but hopefully not as much because the
articles will have been worked on for a week!
Thoughts?
- d.
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